TORONTO — An NDP Quebec candidate, best known as a celebrated separatist who scaled the cross atop Montreal’s Mount Royal to showcase his support for the province’s language law Bill 101, is now under fire for his apparent support of the first Palestinian intifada.

In his 1990 book, Un Pays A Faire (translated as A Country To Make), Hans Marotte writes that: “When a Palestinian comes to ask me to sign his declaration of support for the Intifada, and tells me how happy he is to have my name on his list, I see how important it is that we not close in on ourselves.”

The first intifada was a violent Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank that began in 1987. During its six years, more than 1,100 Palestinians and 100 Israeli civilians were killed. It also marked the first use of suicide bombings in Israel — an attack on an Israeli bus in 1989 that killed 16, including two Canadian women. The attacker, however, survived.

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